Speedy Break Fix
Is DevOps and Agile better than waterfall? Steve has a few thoughts after a recent experience.
Enterprise SQL Server Performance Tuning and Management with dbWatch
We need to transition our team from single instance management and monitoring to managing the overall environment and addressing our most pressing needs to support the organization. How can we move from managing the trees to managing the forest in an efficient and automated manner with a small team?
Help shape the future of Flyway
We’ve got some big plans for this year, and are looking to talk to people who use Flyway in a professional capacity. If you are willing to talk to us about how you first started using Flyway, then get in touch. Of course we’ll also look to say thank you for your time in our usual fashion.
Please include your DDL
I haven’t done it much the past few years, but I would answer some programming questions posted in forums back in the day. In the late 90s, I answered Visual Basic questions and eventually switched to SQL Server questions here on SQL Server Central as my career progressed. Answering questions not only assisted someone else, […]
The Great Developer Resignation
In 2021, many companies had employees leave positions. The number of people resigning from their jobs was so high that the term "The Great Resignation" began appearing in many publications. A number of industries were affected, and there are no shortage of pundits and experts analyzing why. This happened primarily in the US, but the […]
Using Logging with the Delete Activity in Azure Data Factory
This short piece shows how to add logging for the Delete activity and track which files or folders are deleted.
Data lakes take on big data
A data lake is a scalable data storage repository that can ingest large amounts of raw data and make it available on-demand. Robert Sheldon explains the benefits and challenges of data lakes.
Google Cloud DB DevOps Report: Read Now
The 2021 report from the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team at Google Cloud has now been published and provides highlights from seven years of research and data from more than 32,000 professionals worldwide.
A Custom Execution Method – Level 19 of the Stairway to Integration Services
The next level of the Stairway to Integration Services looks at how you can execute your package.
Think Marathon, not Sprint
DevOps is a journey, not a project. Today Steve reminds us that while we want to work across time and constantly improve, we also need some urgency. A marathon is the balance.
Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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